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Bullshit on Stilts: Tackling the bullshitology of financial decisions. - Podcast

Bullshit on Stilts: Tackling the bullshitology of financial decisions.

Join two financial brains turned podcast hosts unleash their wit and wisdom drawing on vast financial backgrounds. Using highly-tuned bullshit sniffers they call out the clichés, crap spackle and flap doodle spewed by so-called experts across the landscape of financial advice. 


These two dudes draw on over half a century of investment experience managing a combined $600+ million in investment assets along with comprehensive financial planning, financial risk management, and private placement hedge funds, venture capital, and natural resource from the late 1980s through 2019. 


These guys tackle the world of financial decision-making to do one thing, to shed light on financial service sales tactics, strategies, and pressure to help develop listeners' financial bullshit sniffers as it relates to money related brainstorming and choices. 


Identifying as doctors of bullshitology, you can count on your hosts to bring you a lively if not deadly mix of serious analysis, hijinx, and tomfoolery. All within a 99.1% bullshit free safe space.

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Average duration
26 minutes
Episodes
26
Years Active
2024 - 2025
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